By guest author Tony Scott The IT Pyramid in the United States and India Tony: People don’t like to be changed or face change – it’s a scary proposition for many – but the technology sector is built on the fundamental concept that change must happen – ever better, ever faster, ever more capable technological
By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: What do you think a single most important thing that angels could do to increase their chances of success? Nova: I advise a bunch of entrepreneurs and help with some of their companies, and the biggest problem entrepreneurs have today with angel funding is actually getting angel funding because
I know I have a lot of readers from the EDA industry. Once a hotbed of innovation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation, it is an industry that is now moribund. VCs and angel investors have all but abandoned the industry, and those private companies that exist find it difficult to create lucrative exits, a phenomenon that
Entrepreneurs interested in discussing positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture, are welcome to attend our next FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, September 30, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST. Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.
Brad Barrett’s GrillGrate was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of the roundtable here.
By guest author Praveen Kumar How much of a consumer’s decision to click on a URL is based on domain name? Domain name plays a big part, says Jeff Levine, and is testing his hypothesis through his company LOGOpremiums, a network of B2B e-catalogs that sells promotional items in which each e-catalog website uses a
SM: What is the process for processing a paper claim? Aside from manual data entry, how does it increase cost over digital claims? BO: When a paper claim comes in it is scanned and OCR’d. It is then loaded into the system and the codes are error checked. If the doctor sends a bad code,
By guest author Tony Scott On Course for a Collision? The Future of Product and Services Companies Tony: In that environment [where it’s more about solving business problems than technology problems], much of the technology becomes totally contextual and therefore less important and of much less value. Outsourcing services companies that are only focusing on